LetsDefend

Incident Response · Cybersecurity

Overview

Hands-On Blue Team Training. We're excited to share a major milestone in our journey: LetsDefend has officially signed an agreement to be acquired by Hack The Box.

Funding and backers

Latest round
Venture round
Mar 2021 · 5 yr ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
The money's age
Long since its last round
67 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
15/100
rising traction
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Mar 31, 2025 Released an app LetsDefend · App Store Mar 26, 2021 Raised a round Venture round Jan 31, 2020 Raised a round Venture round Oct 31, 2019 Raised a round Venture round Mar 8, 2019 Raised a round Venture round Jun 20, 2017 Incorporated HACK THE BOX LTD · Companies House
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
GitHub stars
8 public repositories · +1%
App Store
2.5 ★
4 ratings
Hacker News stories
10
best: 10 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Mar 2021 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Jan 2020 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Oct 2019 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Mar 2019 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity HACK THE BOX LTD its site
Registered 20 Jun 2017
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Financials

Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
4
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2020 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2019 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2019 — Details

News

News YahooFinance 1 year ago
Hack The Box Accelerates Growth With Acquisition of LetsDefend
NEW YORK, September 16, 2025--Hack The Box (HTB), a global leader in gamified cybersecurity skills development, today announced that it has acquired LetsDefend, a pioneering blue team upskilling platform known for its hands-on SOC simulations and growing
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News letsdefend.io 6 years ago
How to Create Alert for SIEM?
We have collected, processed and stored logs up to this point. Now, we need to detect abnormal behavior using the data we have and generate alerts. If you did not read old posts, you can check it:
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News letsdefend.io 6 years ago
SIEM Log Aggregation and Parsing
The first place where the generated logs are sent is the log aggregator. We can edit the logs coming here before sending them to the destination. For example, if we want to get only status codes from a web server logs, we can filter among the incoming log
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News letsdefend.io 6 years ago
Process Injection Detection with Sysmon
To put it simply, a process running code in the address space of another process is called process injection. Attackers and malware often make use of the "Process Injection" technique. Thanks to this technique, they can increase the success rate of the at
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News letsdefend.io 6 years ago
How to Create Incident Response Plan?
Incident response is an approach to managing a security incident process. An incident response plan is needed to approach security incidents systematically. A successful incident response plan includes the following 6 stages
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News letsdefend.io 6 years ago
29 Addresses to Analyze Malware Faster
We constantly spend time analyzing malware. We have listed 29 addresses that can be useful for blue team members to use time more effectively:
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News letsdefend.io 6 years ago
Which Approach Should You Choose When Analyzing Malware?
It is the approach of analyzing malicious software by reverse engineering methods without running them. Generally, by decompile / disassemble the malware, each step that the malware will execute is analyzed, hence the behavior / capacity of the malware ca
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News letsdefend.io 6 years ago
How to Collect Log for SIEM?
In this article, basically explained log collection for SIEM. It contains a basic log, time, source system and a message. For example, when we look at the content of the "/var/log/auth.log" file on an Ubuntu server, we can see the source, time and message
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News letsdefend.io 6 years ago
Build Your Own Simple Data Collection Tool From Endpoint
After a cyber incident, data must be collected to investigate and protect evidence. Collecting data is sensitive process, should not cause the target to collapse and data corruption. Therefore, We need to make minimum changes on the target system while co
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News letsdefend.io 6 years ago
Attacking SIEM with Fake Logs
In order to ensure to cyber security of an organization, the logs of the systems it owns must be collected, analyzed and repeated continuously. For provide the continuous of the process, monitoring systems can be installed. The fact that what is happening
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